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Ian Stewart
(1945-)

Ian Stewart was educated at Cambridge (BA in Mathematics) and Warwick (PhD) and is currently Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University. He is Director of the Mathematics Awareness Centre at Warwick (MAC@W). He has held visiting positions in Germany (1974), New Zealand (1976), and the USA (University of Connecticut 1977-78, University of Houston 1983-84). He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston and a Bios Fellow at Bios Group, Santa Fe. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.

He is an active research mathematician with over 140 published papers. His present field is the effects of symmetry on dynamics, with applications to pattern formation, chaos, and fractals in areas including mathematical biology (especially animal locomotion, speciation, and the formation of animal markings), fluid dynamics, chemical reactions, electronic circuits, quality control of wire, and intelligent control of spring coiling machines. He takes a particular interest in problems that lie in the gaps between pure and applied mathematics.

He is an active popularizer of mathematics and related areas of science. In 1995 he was awarded the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Medal for furthering the public understanding of science; his book Nature's Numbers was shortlisted for the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books. He delivered the 1997 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, televised by the BBC. He has been awarded the 1998 Communications Award of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics in the USA, the 2000 Gold Medal of the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications for outstanding contributions to mathematics and its applications, and the 2002 Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He scripted and presented the December 1992 BBC radio program Chaos! His appearances on British TV include the 1997 Christmas Lectures The Magical Maze, Country Tracks, Equinox programmes Chaos, Antichaos, and Great Little Numbers, The Late Show, Reality on the Rocks, Esther, The Bride of Frankenstein, Sex and the Scientists, The Numbers Game, and Six Experiments that Changed the World; and he has also appeared in Future File on the European Business News satellite channel.

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